Last updated: September 4, 2020
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text that are sent as files to your computer or mobile device when you visit most websites. Cookies may be delivered by us (first-party cookies) or delivered by a third-party partner or supplier (third-party cookies). Cookies are either session cookies or persistent cookies. Session cookies enable sites to recognise and link the actions of a user during a browsing session and expire at the end of each session. Persistent cookies help us recognise you as an existing user and these cookies are stored on your system or device until they expire, although you can delete them before the expiry date.
Other similar technologies
All the technologies described above will be collectively referred to in this Cookie Statement as 'cookies'.
At Expedia Group, we use cookies for a number of reasons, including to:
The types of information that we collect through cookies include:
See the 'Categories of personal information that we collect' section in our Privacy Statement for more information on what types of information are collected automatically.
Essential cookies
Certain cookies are required or 'essential' for our sites to function as intended. Essential cookies are necessary for you to navigate our site and use certain features, such as logging in to your account and managing your bookings. These cookies are also used to remember security settings that allow access to particular content. Lastly, we use essential cookies to collect information on which web pages visitors go to most, so we can improve our online services. You are not able to opt out of essential cookies.
Other types of cookies
We also use other types of cookies to make our site engaging and useful to you:
For analytics, our third-party service providers may use cookies to perform their services and may combine the information that they collect about you on our sites with other information that they have collected. For example, we use Google Analytics cookies to monitor the performance of our sites. Our ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visit to our sites is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. This Cookie Statement does not cover such third parties’ use of your information.
Some analytics cookies can perform tasks that are essential and/or functional to online services, such as enabling site improvements and testing changes on a site.
You can choose not to receive tailored online advertising on this site and other sites and learn more about opting out of having your information used for tailored advertising purposes by accessing one of the following resources:
Note that if you choose not to receive tailored ads, you will still see online advertisements, but they will be general and less relevant to you.
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies whenever you like, but please remember that if you do choose to reject cookies, your access to some of the functionality and areas of our site may be restricted.
By opting in to the use of cookies and other similar technologies on our site, you allow us to:
Some web browsers may transmit Do Not Track signals to sites with which the browser communicates. Because of differences in how web browsers incorporate and activate this feature, it is not always clear whether users intend for these signals to be transmitted, or whether users are even aware of them. Participants in the leading organisation for setting Internet standards that is addressing this issue are in the process of determining what, if anything, sites should do when they receive such signals. We currently do not take action in response to these signals. If and when a final standard is established and accepted, we will reassess our sites’ responses to these signals and make appropriate updates to this Cookie Statement.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us via the Privacy section on our Customer service portal here or alternatively, you can email our customer service team at support@chat.expedia.ie. For a list of the Expedia Group companies, click here.
We may update this Cookie Statement in response to changing laws or technical or business developments. You can see when this Cookie Statement was last updated by checking the 'last updated' date displayed at the top of this Statement.